On Sunday, during a media briefing, Columbia-Richland Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins confirmed that the crash happened in front of ...

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, or CAIB, as it was later known, later released a multi-volume report on how the shuttle was destroyed, and what led to it.

Authorities have identified a woman killed after a crash involving a Columbia-Richland fire truck over the weekend.

Over the days, weeks and months that followed, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board uncovered a now-familiar history of external tank foam insulation problems, management miscues and poor ...

Shuttle Columbia Accident Weekly Briefing Board members spoke to reporters about progress made in the investigation into the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

—Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report At 10:39 Eastern Standard Time on January 16, 2003, space shuttle Columbia lifted off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The board concluded that even though the technical causes of Challenger and Columbia were different, the real cause of the accidents was NASA’s toxic culture.

NASA immediately formed the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, stocking with it admirals, generals, scientists and aerospace giants. They met at Barksdale Air Force Base a day after the disaster.

: Columbia-Richland Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins confirmed during a media briefing on Sunday that the firefighters involved in ...